After dropping off a loaded iron ore train at the connection with Southern Pacific at Ferrum on the western end of the Eagle Mountain RR the power and caboose head back toward Eagle Mountain.
Just days out of General Electric’s Erie works on June 28, 1964, and showroom fresh, Southern Pacific U50 8500 simmers under the El Paso sun, about to lend its considerable 5,000 hp to a westbo... (more)